> This CoC can be summarized as "don't be a jerk to other people"
That is true if in your world saying or writing the following is being a jerk:
- hug, <3
- smoking is bad for you, you should eat healthier food, I think that food is disgusting
- men have higher testosterone levels
All of these violate their CoC.
If all they wanted is a CoC that says "don't be a jerk" then they would have put that into their CoC and not what's in it currently, like many other projects had done so[1].
> I can't even fathom how that's a controversial or political statement, but yet, here we are.
It's political because it's being pushed by political activist groups and it's controversial because not everyone agrees that writing hug should get you banned from a technical community.